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Our firm focuses on family law cases. We pride ourselves in providing various service options to support clients in picking the best process to resolve their legal issues.

Types of Services

Document preparation

Affording a law firm to handle all your services can be difficult because of the expense. One limited scope service our firm provides is to prepare court paperwork on your behalf. The paperwork would be in your name, no attorney would come on the record, but you would get the opportunity to get legal advice as well as the documents produced for your court action. Our firm can also e-file the documents and serve the documents on the other side if you would like those additional services.

This type of service is best for someone who is on a limited budget and whose matter is not overly complicated. You just want to confirm what paperwork you need for the court action, and that the paperwork filed addresses your needs.

Litigation services

Litigation services are any and all services that address needing to file, submit, or appear at the courthouse for any family law action.

Our firm only provides litigation support services - answering questions, document production, filing, facilitating service, propounding and responding to discovery.

Litigation is the typical process for court action. It is not voluntary and is the “default” method used by the court once a party has started a lawsuit.

Litigation services for family law are best for someone who (a) needs emergency orders, (b) believes the other side is difficult to work with , (c) does not believe the other side can be trusted and/or will hide information through the process, and/or (d) you believe you are going to need a judge to decide some or all parts of your case.

Litigation is a very expensive process and throughout the process various attempts must be made to settle prior to going to trial.

mediation services

Mediation is a voluntary process that must be agreed upon by both parties. Mediation is where the attorney in our firm acts as a neutral party to facilitate helping both sides reach agreements on the various parts of their case.

Since the attorney is acting as a neutral, no legal advice is given, only legal information.

If any agreements are reached in mediation, the attorney can scribe the agreement on behalf of the parties if they ask and agree to it in writing. If the attorney acts as a scribe, each party would be encouraged to have their own independent attorney review any agreement prior to submitting the paperwork to court for approval. This is so you can get any and all legal advice about the proposed agreement prior to asking the court to approve the agreement and avoid any later remorse about what you agreed to.

As part of the mediation services, our firm can handle filing and service of relevant documents as long as it is agreed to in writing by both parties through the mediation process. Divorce actions typically require 5-7 mediation sessions. Paternity actions including custody ond child support typically require 3-5 mediation sessions. The mediation sessions are usually one hour to ninety minutes each and are conducted through Zoom.

Mediation is best for parties who can communicate with each other, are able to compromise, and believe they can work together to reach agreements with a neutral person helping out.

Mediation is not a good idea for parties who are too emotionally upset to have conversations with one another even with a mediator helping, the trust is too broken to believe each other during the process, a person is not willing to share any and all information when asked for it, or one party is someone who never wants to compromise on anything.

This mediation is not the same as court-ordered mediation through family court services that addresses child custody and parenting time.

Collaborative services

Collaborative divorce is a voluntary process.

The collaborative approach is a team approach. The typical team is one collaborative attorney for each party, one neutral mental health professional, and one neutral financial person.

At the beginning of the process, a written agreement is entered into to use this approach. The attorneys are specially trained for this process, and neither attorney can ever represent either party in litigation. Both attorneys are working with the parties to settle all issues.

The process consists of several team meetings, addressing each part of the process, until a settlement is reached.

The benefits of the collaborative approach is parties get to dialogue with one another, both attorneys are settlement minded, and the parties do not have to go through court for anything other than submitting paperwork.

The collaborative process works best with parties who are willing to trust each other through the process, can still communicate, want to reach their own agreements, and are okay not to have a judge decide the outcome of their case. The parties want to be their own decision-makers.

The collaborative process is not recommended if you (a) need emergency orders, (b) do not want to have conversations with the other side, (c) there is a history of serious abuse, or (d) you do not think the other side can be trusted through the process to provide information requested.

Cost of Services

See our “fees and pricing” section of our website for this information.